History of Spanish and Portuguese Literature (Vol 1 of 2)
F. Justins, Printer, 41, Brick Lane, Spitalfields.
The growing interest of Spanish and Portuguese Literature would, perhaps, be thought a sufficient reason for laying the following translation before the public, were the merits of the original work even less conspicuous, and the deficiency it appears fitted to supply in our language less sensibly felt. It is, indeed, extraordinary, that no similar work has hitherto appeared in a country, where the subject of which this history treats, has, in the instances in which it has been partially explored, always been found a rich source of pleasure and instruction. But the information thus collected from the literary stores of Spain and Portugal, however satisfactory on particular points, is, from its nature, detached and incomplete, and seems calculated to increase rather than to diminish the desire for such a connected and comprehensive view of the whole subject as M. Bouterwek has exhibited in his General History of Modern Literature.
The first of the following volumes is devoted to the history of Spanish, and the second to the history of Portuguese Literature. The subdivisions of the work correspond with periods marked out by certain revolutions in taste, produced by the rise of eminent writers, or by other influential circumstances. These epochs in literary cultivation form convenient resting places for the student, and contribute to exhibit in a clear point of view the circumstances by which the advancement of polite learning has been accelerated or retarded. The specimens, which are numerous, and a great portion of which are selected from very scarce works, cannot fail to prove highly acceptable to the lovers of the literature of Spain and Portugal. For a general and comprehensive knowledge of that literature they will be found amply sufficient, and to those who wish to pursue its study more in detail, they will afford most useful assistance. In such a course of study, great advantage may also be derived from the numerous bibliographical notes which the author has introduced, and which are therefore scrupulously retained in the translation.
Friedrich Bouterwek
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PREFACE.
PROBABLE PERIOD OF THE FIRST ROMANCES.
POEMA DEL CID.
POEMA DE ALEXANDRO MAGNO.
GONZALO BERCEO.
ALPHONSO XI.
EARLY CULTIVATION OF CASTILIAN PROSE—DON JUAN MANUEL; HIS CONDE LUCANOR; HIS ROMANCES.
SATIRICAL POEM OF JUAN RUYZ, ARCH-PRIEST OF HITA.
MORE PRECISE ACCOUNT OF THE ORIGIN OF THE SPANISH POETIC ROMANCES AND SONGS—PROBABLE RISE OF THE ROMANCES OF CHIVALRY IN PROSE—ORIGINAL RELATIONSHIP OF THE POETIC AND THE PROSE ROMANCES.
THE DIFFERENT KINDS OF POETIC ROMANCE.
CASTILIAN POETRY IN THE THIRTEENTH AND FOURTEENTH CENTURIES.
POETICAL COURT OF JOHN II.
THE MARQUIS OF VILLENA.
THE MARQUIS OF SANTILLANA; HIS POETICAL WORKS; HIS HISTORICAL AND CRITICAL LETTER.
JUAN DE MENA.
PEREZ DE GUZMAN, RODRIGUEZ DEL PADRON, AND OTHER SPANISH LYRIC POETS OF THE AGE OF JOHN II.
OF THE CANCIONERO GENERAL, AND THE DIFFERENT KINDS OF ANCIENT SPANISH SONGS.
OF THE ROMANCERO GENERAL.
FIRST TRACES OF THE ORIGIN OF SPANISH DRAMATIC POETRY IN THE MINGO REBULGO—JUAN DEL ENZINA—CALLISTUS AND MELIBŒA, A DRAMATIC TALE.
JUAN DE LA ENZINA’S ART OF CASTILIAN POETRY.
OCCASION OF THE INTRODUCTION OF THE ITALIAN STYLE.
BOSCAN.
GARCILASO DE LA VEGA.
DIEGO DE MENDOZA.
SAA DE MIRANDA.
MONTEMAYOR.
HERRERA.
LUIS DE LEON.
MINOR SPANISH POETS DURING THE PERIOD OF THIS SECTION, VIZ. ACUÑA—CETINA—PADILLA—GIL POLO.
OBSTACLES TO THE IMITATION OF THE ROMANTIC EPOPEE IN SPAIN—UNSUCCESSFUL ESSAYS IN SERIOUS EPOPEE—TRANSLATIONS OF CLASSICAL EPIC POETRY.
PROGRESS OF THE ROMANTIC POETRY—CASTILLEJO: HIS CONTEST WITH THE PARTIZANS OF THE ITALIAN STYLE.
HISTORY OF SPANISH DRAMATIC POETRY, DURING THE FIRST HALF AND TEN SUCCEEDING YEARS OF THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY.
HISTORY OF SPANISH PROSE DURING THE FIRST HALF AND TEN SUCCEEDING YEARS OF THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY.
SPANISH CRITICISM DURING THE PERIOD OF THIS SECTION.
CERVANTES.
LOPE DE VEGA.
THE BROTHERS LEONARDO DE ARGENSOLA.
CONTINUATION OF THE HISTORY OF SPANISH POETRY AND ELOQUENCE DURING THE AGE OF CERVANTES AND LOPE DE VEGA.
FRESH FAILURES IN EPIC POETRY—ERCILLA’S ARAUCANA.
LYRIC AND BUCOLIC POETS OF THE CLASSIC SCHOOL OF THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY.
RISE OF A NEW IRREGULAR AND FANTASTICAL STYLE IN SPANISH POETRY.
GONGORA AND HIS ESTILO CULTO—THE CULTORISTOS—THE CONCEPTISTOS.
TWO DRAMATIC POETS OF THE AGE OF LOPE DE VEGA.
NOVELS IN THE AGE OF CERVANTES AND LOPE DE VEGA.
PROGRESSIVE CULTIVATION OF THE HISTORICAL ART—MARIANA.
FLUCTUATION OF SPANISH TASTE FROM THE CLASSIC TO THE CORRUPT STYLE.
QUEVEDO.
VILLEGAS.
CONTINUATION OF THE HISTORY OF LYRIC, BUCOLIC, EPIC, DIDACTIC, AND SATIRICAL POETRY, TO THE CLOSE OF THE PERIOD EMBRACED BY THIS SECTION.
JAUREGUI.
BORJA Y ESQUILLACHE.
OTHER POETS OF THIS PERIOD—THE SYLVAS, OR POETIC FORESTS.
REBOLLEDO.
CONTINUATION OF THE HISTORY OF THE SPANISH DRAMA.
CALDERON.
HISTORY OF THE SPANISH DRAMA CONTINUED TO THE CLOSE OF THE PERIOD OF THIS SECTION.
CONCLUSION OF THE HISTORY OF SPANISH ELOQUENCE AND CRITICISM WITHIN THE PERIOD OF THIS SECTION.
INTRODUCTION OF GONGORISM INTO SPANISH PROSE—BALTHASAR GRACIAN.
BOOK III.
HISTORY OF SPANISH LITERATURE FROM ITS DECLINE IN THE LATTER HALF OF THE SEVENTEENTH TO THE END OF THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY.
CHAP. I.
GENERAL VIEW OF THE STATE OF POETICAL AND RHETORICAL CULTIVATION IN SPAIN DURING THIS PERIOD.
CHAP. II.
DECAY OF THE OLD SPANISH POETRY AND ELOQUENCE, AND INTRODUCTION OF THE FRENCH STYLE INTO SPANISH LITERATURE.
CANDAMO, ZAMORA, AND CAÑIZARES, DRAMATISTS IN THE OLD NATIONAL STYLE.
DOÑA JUANA INEZ DE LA CRUZ.
GERARDO LOBO.
MAYANS Y SISCAR—BLAS NASSARE.
MONTIANO’S TRAGEDIES IN THE FRENCH STYLE.
VELASQUEZ.
CHAPTER III.
CONCLUDING PERIOD OF THE HISTORY OF SPANISH POETRY AND ELOQUENCE.
LA HUERTA.
SEDANO.
YRIARTE.
LEON DE ARROYAL.
JUAN MELENDEZ VALDES.
BRIEF NOTICE OF SOME OF THE MORE RECENT LITERARY PRODUCTIONS OF SPAIN.
CONCLUSION.
ERRATA FOR VOL I.
CLASS I.
CLASS II.
CLASS III.
FOOTNOTES:
LA GLOSA DE PINAR.
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